Thomas Moore

Black-and-white photograph from March 1968 taken by the Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee. In the photograph, Thomas Moore, an International Harvester employee and supporter of the sanitation workers strike, demonstrates alone outside of Memphis city hall following a snow storm. Moore wears a sign with the slogan "Do right Mr. Mayor!" referring to Memphis mayor Henry Loeb.

The Memphis Sanitation Workers' strike began on February 11, 1968, following years of dangerous working conditions, discrimination, and the work-related deaths of two African American sanitation workers. Led by local clergy, including Methodist pastor James Lawson, community members engaged in boycotts, mass meetings, marches, and other civil disobedience in support of the strike. The strike ended April 12, 1968.

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